Life in the Midwest became treacherous this weekend with a blizzard that lasted from Friday night through to Saturday evening. Above is a photo of my neighbor attempting to snow blow his driveway Sunday morning after it had been dumped with 16 in. of snow. My dad and I found this pretty hilarious to watch until it came time to dig the car out of our own driveway so I could go to work.
My poor little house! It was the worst snowfall Minnesota has encountered since Halloween 1991 when we got 28 inches. I can’t imagine that at all. Getting home from work on Saturday night was quite an event. Driving was impossibly dangerous and my vision was completely whited out. Luckily I’ve taken the same route nearly daily for many years so I made it in one piece with familiarity on my side, but others weren’t so lucky. On- and off-ramps were littered with backed up vehicles, some in the ditch, and many cars had spun out into snowbanks. (see snowpocolypse at night.)
Work was so slow, even during our major clearance event, that I was able to make this sign for our book sale between ringing up customers when normally there’s barely time for lunch.
I still think the snow is beautiful though.
Haha…we had a similar “event” here in Nevada a few weekends ago that I called “Snowmageddon.”
Actually, it was mostly hype — and about 9 inches of snow. Not quite so much “Snowmageddon” as a silly little storm.
Great pix — glad you were able to dig out of the mess!
LOL! I live in a very cold part of Alaska and we get blizzards often. I’ll have to remember some of these cute little names for blizzards! “snowcalypse” “snowmageddon” Cute :)
It is, isn’t it? And it provides a great excuse to get out of things, like school or work:) Stay warm and healthy out there!
Love the snow! Probably because it doesn’t snow in Sri Lanka! ;-)
The pictures are great, wish I was there. We live in Houston having moved here from Akron. the last time our Wagoner was in 4 wheel was the winter of 2008. I admit that driving can be tricky and sometimes dangerous but the insipid heat and humidity get pretty bad as well. Enjoy it while you can and be safe.
I agree that there’s little more lovely than snow! I live in Haiti, where obvioulsy we have none. But I so look forward to going home for the holidays to Kentucky–praying for lots of snow there–especially for Christmas!
Congrats on being freshly pressed! Happened to me last week. Hang on for the ride!
Happy Holidays from Haiti,
Kathy
I soooo am disappointed in the snow lol I’m from PA and we get it all the time. Luckily, I moved to VA and down here, let’s just say when it flurries, they shut everything down!! Lovely.
Congtas on being Feeshly Plowed…oops, I mean Freshly Pressed. My bad.
Blessings,
Ava
xox
hey at least your roof didnt collapse like at the metrodome!
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true! but it still looks like it’s going to.
just tweeted a link to this post. we sell snow removal software and some of our clients are up there removing the snow. LOVE LOVE LOVE “snowpocolypse”!!!
Snow IS beautiful but sometimes too much is just too much…lol… it has been snowing a lot in Europe as well- even here in the UK where we usually do not get that much snow. Well, at least it’ll make for a white Christmas. Happy holidays!
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I never experience snow, hope i dont as well.
I’m also in the midwest blizzard area. It’s a little better in my state though. Still beautiful, much nicer to look at and photograph than the gloom we had a few weeks ago.
Kudos on yur “freshly pressed” status! I seem to remember that last winter (January/February 2010) there was another “snowpocolypse”, in the northeast LOL
Maybe this is a continuation.
Nothing more exciting than fresh, fine snow. i’m in Nashville, TN right now, and around here 1 – 3″ puts the locals in snow denial as they continmue to drive fast as if they can overcome the power of the ice – usually ending up sideways with damage to the vehicle.
I say: “Go Snoow!”
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Here in Southern California it was in the 80′s yesterday and I suspect it will get there today as well. I wish we could take a little of your snow off your hands for you. I don’t want to have to dig out my car mind you but trying to get in the Christmas mood when you are sweaty doesn’t work.
A friend of mine who lives in east-river SD was excited about the coming snow on Thursday. I think he still equates snow with snow days. I do too, but it just makes me more angry that I have to go to work on such days.
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Thanks for the snowy pics! Im orginally from Toronto and have seen many snow storms. However I have never liked the cold and now live in Italy. But I still love to see the first snow fall, or storm. Beautiful.
Here in England we got super-excited and had the entire city come to a standstill a couple of weeks ago. With around 15cm of snow (which roughly translates to 6-7inches)! My university closed down for a whole of 2 days (which, I am now finding, was highly detrimental to my education); something that it has never had to do!
When people drive, bike, walk, run, play and do their “normal” every day life (even the ice cream man continues to ring his truck bell and wait for customers right in the middle of a blizzard) under inches and inches of snow… Now, THAT is “snowmaggedon” (which has been happening regularly in Copenhagen, Denmark)
Stay bundled up. Wear a balaclava like I do!
Until the vehicle I drive can fly. I never want to live in snow again. I will never forget the night myself and my roommate took two hours to get home,,,a trip that usually took us 30 mins because of the horrible snowy weather. It’s cold here in Sarasota, FL today and there are freeze warnings for tonight. Laugh if you will but cold is cold no matter where you go and as far as I’m concerned it’s the enemy.
We’re getting our second leg of snow here in Northwestern PA. We got walloped last week, and this second round is supposed to be worse! Good luck digging out..make a snowman in the meantime! Congrats on being FP!
Yay for FP! And WOW that’s alot of snow :) That’s the part about winter I don’t miss one bit. I was always afraid of getting stuck with my car on the side of the highway. I once saw a car do a 360 on the highway, while it was snowing, at night. I stopped (since they nearly hit me) and ran to their car. The young couple inside were terrified but in one piece, I offered to render First Aid if they needed. They said they were OK. I waited with my hazard lights until they started off again into the blizzard.
oh dear… but oh well! Make the best out of this and hopefully when the year is over, this will all be material for some good laughs
Snowpocolypse! Love it!Whew! I am so glad we don’t get that much snow where I live. I am not a fan of it at all! Your pictures are great, however!
Congratulations on being freshly pressed. :)
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In the beginning of this year (especially in February) we had our own snowpocolypse in western PA and probably areas around here. I have pictures on my blog of it. My grandfather died in February and the ground was so frozen that he couldnt be burried until 2-3 weeks after he was supposed to be.
very true. winter in the midwest can be horrible! thank goodness chicago hasnt gotten any signs of a snowpocalypse yet. snow pictures always look cool though
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We had a Snowpocalypse up in London, Ontario, Canada last week… we were out of school for three days straight!
Ok, I will stop complaining about all the snow shoveling I lately had to do, because you prove that things could be worse! ;)
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I live about an hour west of Sioux Falls SD. I kept wishing that storm would divert it’s course towards me, instead of attacking you guys. No such luck. :(
I am so jealous, since we only got about 2 inches.
That much snow is ridiculous
I get upset when we get an inch once a year… Mind you I live in North carolina, It’s just reeeeaaaalllyyy annoying.
at about half an inch everything starts to shut down and the world stops like a broken dvd…
Don’t get me wrong; i don’t hate the snow, I think its beautiful… i just don’t like how inconvenient it is.
Don’t stop Howling…
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Oh, you’re bringing back memories of what hit the East Coast last February. I was thinking of you all in that part of the country. So much shoveling. Well, at least you don’t have an inflatable roof on your house ;-)
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haha ikr? I only have a few pics from it but its enough to explain what happened. School wasnt canceled until we had like a foot of snow. We had to make up some days that were canceled. added half a month to the end of the school year. and the teachers didnt have anything else to teach so we just messed around the whole time
What kind of camera do you use? I have been desperately attempting to take pictures of the blizzard with the clarity and focus of your work.
I just got a new Nikon Coolpix L22 about a week ago. It’s super basic and pretty cheap.
-Natalie
wow thats a lot of snow
Glad you survived.. as a fellow Minnesotan I can understand your pain! Just be glad you were not in the dome.
I have a couples pics of my car being buried check them out http://www.thestupidme.com
At least you’ll have a white Christmas.
definitely not worried about that! ;)
The snow blowing neighbor actually had me in tears as my wonderful imagination formed the futility properly.
Hilarious.
Especially with how little progress it seemed he had made.
I’ve never seen snow in my life (Aussie) but now maybe I’m thinking that’s a good thing!
Welcome to Canada, five months a year. :)
Well I used to live in Canada and we never got snow like this! It was Vancouver, though. ;) If rain built up in banks like snow does I’m sure Vancouver would look pretty crazy though.
I live in the same geographical area as dreamweaver38, and just north of there they measured 177 cm of snow had fallen in just two or three days last week. That’s right – over five FEET. I remember lots of snow as a child, but nothing like that. Amazing.
The snow in Wisconsin wasn’t much better. We only got 10.5 inches, but it’s all frozen slush under the giant piles of while crap! My town was even completely shut down yesterday….No plows until the wee hours of this morning.
Keep warm, and drive safely! Don’t need anymore people in the ditch!
I live in Chicago and we got a decent amount, but our neighbors in Northwest Indiana got slammed with lake effect snow. Horrible! I walk to work, so as long as I’ve got my Sorel boots, North Face jacket, scarf, hat, gloves and legwarmers (phew!), I’m good. As long as I remember to have kleenex in my pocket. :)
Wow that is a ton of snow! It makes me miss living in the Midwest; I recently moved to southern China. It also reminded me of a hilarious Youtube video I just used to teach weather. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpxiCxO5k0g I hope you enjoy!
We had our Snowpocalypse 2 winters in a row, 2007-2008, and 2008-2009 here in Washington state. The second one gave us 6 feet of snow in a couple of weeks. I never want snowpocalypse again!
Hahahaha, love the title.
Great photos, they might end up in an American History book. I’ve listened all weekend to the weathermen and women talking about Minneapolis and the snow. I want it to snow in Tn. I don’t want it to snow that much. You were really brave to drive in that weather. Glad you got home safely.
I live in wyoming and we had rain then slush fall from our sky.. I would have rather the snow you got! Great title by the way!
The radio stations here were calling it “Snowmaggedon” last week. Final count in 3 days was a meter of snow that dropped (roughly 40 inches). Had to dig my car out twice.
Looking at these pics makes me rather embarrassed when I see the fuss the British people made of our little splattering 8 inches……..
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That was Awesome!!! I could only wish!!!
i am disappointed about this.
“My dad and I found this pretty hilarious to watch until it came time to dig the car out of our own driveway
so I could go to work.” ahahah! thats funny!
But now seriously, we are really messing up with the nature and the weather… the unbalance created will ultimately lead to increasingly mean weather conditions, I think politics should be a lot more concerned with this fact than they actually are.
what kind of book you are selling?? maybe i can have 2!!
very creative title and nice post too. Well done on getting freshly pressed!
Congrats on being Freshly Pressed! It happened to me yesterday as well, and it was an unusual experience to say the least. Besides the leap in comments and views, I found literally hundreds of porn comments that Aksimet caught which I offered to forward to a number of male commenters who found that funny. A unique day all around.
And that’s what brought me here and I’m so glad I came, because your pictures brought me back to an earlier life in eastern CT where the snow blew and the air smelled wonderful and the moonlight on a field of snow was the most romantic thing I ever saw.
Anyway, good luck with the blog. Good work so far!
Beautiful pics… that would be the snowstorm that took down the Metrodome. Been a decidedly unsnowy winter so far in Michigan… send some our way!
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